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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sorting problem: Multiple delimiters, multiple keys Post 302538046 by alister on Monday 11th of July 2011 02:55:26 PM
Old 07-11-2011
By the way, the consecutive seds in the pipeline can be simplified: sed 's/,/:/3 ; s/,/:/3'.

That'll save some time in context switches and copying data in and out of kernel/userland buffers.

Regards,
Alister

---------- Post updated at 02:55 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:53 PM ----------

Also, it seems GNU sort can handle this situation, by automatically creating tmp files during the sorting process. I'm assuming you're not on Linux. If so, and if you are using GNU sort, you should paste the exact error message.
 

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